Encyclopedia Brown Box Set (4 Books)

I love the, uh, the reference to encyclopedia Brown, whose books I read all through school. I was very big on that. Those are great books.

Do you know that when I was little, I checked out like eight Encyclopedia Brown books and then I didn't return them and I knew they were overdue and then I just put them in the back of my closet and never told anybody.

And they stayed there for months. And my mom's like, what was the plan here? Like, why wouldn't you just tell me and we would go to the library?

Yes. Young enough to not understand the fines.

But also, I think it's a good reflection of how my sister and I were often left to our own devices to fix things that were actually adult level problems.

Yes. A real smart boy that just kind of knew trivia stuff. And that would help him solve mysteries around town.

They swore each other in on a copy of our favorite book and Cyclopedia Brown was mine.